Looking at this reel cabelas has it on sale for $99.99. Any thoughts. Anyone own it and how do you like it thanks.

The twitching bar is a little gimmicky to me but it's a solid, well built reel, I have a couple of them.  I think the original price was in the $200-$225 range.  The Viento doesn't have Magforce Z braking but the current Cabela's version does have the updated handle.  All in all, it's a good reel at $99.

Can you easily cast light weight baits

I've mainly only used mine for heavier applications so I can't really say for sure how light it would go but I don't consider it a finesse bait caster by any means.

I have one that I use for a technique I , call finesse topwater. The twitching bar allows you to give a frog, spook or popper a tiny jerk without moving the bait any more than a couple inches. I'm not a big Diawa fan but bought this one for strictly topwater use.

I throw a lot of weedless worms like senkos ect. Do you think it will work for that

Looking at this reel cabelas has it on sale for $99.99. Any thoughts. Anyone own it and how do you like it thanks.

I say go for it!

 

T'Tour has a review of it, gives it a 9.0 out of 10, the Cabelas reviews are high, it's a good reel for the money, it seems to me.

I throw a lot of weedless worms like senkos ect. Do you think it will work for that

 

T'Tour's review states this as for the reel's applications:

 

 

"The Viento is a excellent reel for fishing jigs and plastics but we found other uses for this innovative reel as well"

I can see a 5" Senko, unweighted being okay with this reel, but it would really depend on the rod.  The reel wasn't really designed for light baits, though.  One really cool feature is that you can reengage the spool with the twitching bar.  This makes it an excellent candidate for pitching.

They're actually a pretty solid reel. Like John said, it performs much better at 3/8+.

I have one that I use for a technique I , call finesse topwater. The twitching bar allows you to give a frog, spook or popper a tiny jerk without moving the bait any more than a couple inches. I'm not a big Diawa fan but bought this one for strictly topwater use.

I got one as a birthday present from my sweetie. I spooled it up with 10lb mono and put it on a 6'6" med-fast Setyr rod I use for jerkbaits and small topwaters. The reel is perfect for that application. I've caught a lot of fish crankin a Pointer or X-Rap down with the handle then switch to the twitchin bar to do a slow jerky retrieve with little forward movement. Easy to do with this reel; not so easy to do with rod movement.

It's nowhere near as good with light baits as an Alphas, but a little experimentation with spool tension and brake settings will produce acceptable results.

My back-up plan was to put the reel on a pitchin rod for the same reason Francho outlined. It's done well enough on the jerkbait rod, that it's gonna stay right where it is.